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Quotes About Experience

The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true? 'It would be hard to learn much less than my pupils,' came a low growl from somewhere on the table, 'without undergoing a pre-frontal lobotomy.
~ Douglas Adams
Tutto quel che, in qualsiasi forma, vedi, senti o provi è specifico di te. Tu crei un universo percependolo, sicché tutto quanto percepisci dell'universo è specifico di te
~ Douglas Adams
The sweat stood out cold on Ford Prefect's brow, and slid round the electrodes strapped to his temples. These were attached to a battery of electronic equipment—imagery intensifiers, rhythmic modulators, alliterative residulators and simile dumpers—all designed to heighten the experience of the poem and make sure that not a single nuance of the poet's thought was lost.
~ Douglas Adams
How do you know you're having fun if there's no one watching you have it?
~ Douglas Adams
I wasn't in the universe, I was in England, a point that has been made to me before.
~ Douglas Adams
They were not the same eyes with which he had last looked at this particular scene, and the brain which interpreted the images the eyes resolved was not the same brain. There had been no surgery involved, just he continual wrenching of experience.
~ Douglas Adams
the vaguely uncomfortable feeling you got from sitting on a seat which is warm from somebody else's bottom is just as real a feeling as the one you get when a rogue giant elephant charges out of the bush at you
~ Douglas Adams
Very strange people, physicists, he said as soon as they were outside again. In my experience the ones who aren't actually dead are in some way very ill.
~ Douglas Adams
It's not so much an afterlife,' said Arthur, 'more a sort of après vie.
~ Douglas Adams
Birinin verdiÄŸi tavsiyenin kalitesini anlamak için o kiÅŸinin yaÅŸam?na bakmak gerekir.
~ Douglas Adams
Life is wasted on the living.'
~ Douglas Adams
Esa muchacha es una de las formas de vida orgánica menos sumida en la ignorancia y menos torpe que he tenido la profunda falta de placer de no ser capaz de evitar conocer
~ Douglas Adams
most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time.
~ Douglas Adams
I went mad for a while," said Ford, "did me no end of good.
~ Douglas Adams
in most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.
~ Douglas Adams
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
~ Douglas Adams
Glapitonner: profondément ému par le récit d'une tragédie personnelle.
~ Douglas Adams
He grabbed a passing waitress by the arm and berated her. 'Why's this fish so bloody good?' he demanded, angrily. 'Please excuse my friend,' said Fenchurch to the startled waitress. 'I think he's having a nice day at last.
~ Douglas Adams
Anyone who can go through Hyde Park on a summer's evening and not feel moved by it is probably going through in an ambulance with the sheet pulled over their face.
~ Douglas Adams
Bill Black is said to be one of the most experienced helicopter pilots in the world, and he needs to be. He sits like a cuddly old curmudgeon hunched over his joystick and chews gum slowly and continuously as he flies his helicopter directly at sheer cliff faces to see if you'll scream.
~ Douglas Adams
Man pat?k beigu termi?i. Man it ?paši pat?ks svelpjoš? ska?a, ko tie rada lidojot gar?m.
~ Douglas Adams
He suddenly shivered: he experienced a momentary sensation that he didn't understand because no one on Earth had ever experienced it before. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. This signal simply communicates an exact and almost pathetic sense of how far that being is from the place of his birth. On Earth it is never possible to be farther than sixteen thousand miles from your birthplace
~ Douglas Adams
Mixture of pleasure and pain," he muttered. "Always does the trick.
~ Douglas Adams
The man next to Ford grinned and nodded happily. Ford ignored him. He said, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
~ Douglas Adams